The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently sent letters to numerous, unnamed publicly-traded US companies requesting every nondisclosure agreement, confidentiality agreement, severance agreement, and settlement agreement the companies have entered into with employees since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) was enacted, as well as any other documents related to … Continue Reading
The rules and regulations which affect your UK business are many and varied. Compliance is key to keeping safe the reputation of both the company and management and avoiding potentially significant criminal and civil penalties. Squire Sanders’ experts will present a range of topics which Japanese Managers need to be aware of in order to … Continue Reading
This post continues our short series dealing with the obligations and conditions which may be imposed by EU privacy law on businesses setting up whistleblowing hotlines in the region. See our earlier posts: Part 1 and Part 2. Specific Data Security Requirements The use of appropriate security measures to protect personal data from unauthorised use or … Continue Reading
Czech entities regularly transfer personal data to the United States. These companies often have a US sister or parent company or are using US servers (e.g. for US cloud services). Except for the EU countries, it is in the US where most of the personal data transferred from the Czech Republic ends up. The European … Continue Reading
Every employer will recognise the sinking feeling which accompanies receipt of a data subject access request from a current or former employee. Not only is it a fair indicator that he is considering doing something unpleasant to you, but you face also the prospect of wading through your entire server, waist-deep in irrelevancies, to find … Continue Reading
Squire Sanders is presenting a series of webinars focussing on the key labour and employment issues in various countries throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States. On 28 November 2012 at 2.00pm GMT (9.00am EST, 3.00pm CET, 6.00pm MSK), the featured country is Russia. It will focus on the protection of personal employee data … Continue Reading
